Sudip Bose is the managing editor of the Scholar. He wrote the weekly classical music column “Measure by Measure” on this website for three years.
Sudip Bose
Sonic Geographer
The composer whose music bears witness to a planet in peril
by Sudip Bose | Monday, October 05, 2020
Making Himself at Home
A German-born composer and his English oratorios
by Sudip Bose | Monday, December 03, 2018
Innocence and Loss
Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915
by Sudip Bose | Monday, September 16, 2019
The Story of an Exile
Arnold Schoenberg and his Piano Concerto
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, February 06, 2020
The Composer as Dissident
Karl Amadeus Hartmann and the act of bearing witness
by Sudip Bose | Friday, January 24, 2020
Beethoven and James Bond
Recalling the past, surveying the future
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 09, 2020
Nationalist Anthems
Remembering a time when composers mattered more
by Sudip Bose | Monday, December 02, 2019
A Composer in an Antique Land
The legacy of Arthur Farwell
by Sudip Bose | Friday, November 01, 2019
This Is What Terror Sounds Like
10 pieces to guarantee the Halloween shivers
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 24, 2019
A Symphony for Springtime
Or, when is an American symphony not American enough?
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, May 16, 2019
In Praise of Chadwick
Remembering one of American music’s founding fathers
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, April 04, 2019
Bach’s Birthday Returns
The young Bruno Maderna sought inspiration in the past
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 21, 2019
The Summit Revealed
Alan Hovhaness and his Mysterious Mountain
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 07, 2019
An American Impressionist
What Charles Griffes wrote during his brief life leaves us wanting more
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, February 07, 2019
Requiem for Fanny
Mendelssohn’s final expression of grief
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 24, 2019
The World Becomes a Dream, the Dream Becomes a World
Wolfgang Rihm’s Astralis
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, December 13, 2018
The Maestro as Engineer
Ernest Ansermet and Arthur Honegger’s speeding train
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 29, 2018
The Virtuoso as Aristocrat
Jorge Bolet and one memorable night in 1974
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 15, 2018
The Power of Musick
Handel, Dryden, and Alexander the Great
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 18, 2018
The Boy Romantic
Erich Wolfgang Korngold and his musical snowman
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 04, 2018
A Tingling Spine Every Time
Some of classical music’s most sublime moments
by Sudip Bose | Tuesday, October 02, 2018
The Lonely Heath at Twilight
Gustav Holst, Thomas Hardy, and a musical portrait of a timeless place
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 27, 2018
A Requiem of One’s Own
Stravinsky’s late 12-tone masterpiece
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 20, 2018
Happy Birthday, Clara Schumann
The compositions of the eminent pianist are finally getting their due
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 13, 2018
A Sunset in Song
Ottorino Respighi and Percy Bysshe Shelley
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 06, 2018
Mozart in Sun and Shadow
A novella imagines a day with the great composer
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, August 23, 2018
Bernstein on Bach
Learning about counterpoint on network TV
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, August 16, 2018
The Virtuoso as Artist
Remembering Ruggiero Ricci on the centenary of his birth
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, August 02, 2018
Who’s the Boss?
When conductor and soloist clash, a concerto performance can turn into a contest of wills
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, July 26, 2018
The Conquered Ear
Roger Sessions’s Eighth Symphony, 50 years after its premiere
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, May 10, 2018
Lilacs for Lincoln (and Kennedy and King)
Roger Sessions, part II
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, May 17, 2018
The Man Who Loved Proust
Reynaldo Hahn and the sounds of the beautiful age
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, May 24, 2018
Requiem for an Angel
A concerto and its nearly disastrous premiere
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, May 31, 2018
The Séance and Robert Schumann
How did a long-lost concerto finally come to light?
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 19, 2017
Final Regret
The Baroque opera that Claude Debussy wanted to see before he died
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 22, 2018
Who Was Laura Valborg Aulin?
A glimpse at the composer of a grand, serious—and forgotten—masterpiece
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 15, 2018
A Day in the Life
Reading Joyce’s Ulysses as a guide to urban living
by Sudip Bose | Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Doppelgängers
What does Schubert sound like on a jazzy bass trombone?
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, February 01, 2018
The Cult of Johanna Martzy
Forgotten at her death, yet treasured for her recordings
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 18, 2018
A Year in the Desert
Elliott Carter and his revolutionary first string quartet
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 11, 2018
Marching Into 2018
Has Johann Strauss ever sounded so foreboding?
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 04, 2018
Among the Believers
Handel’s Messiah didn’t always have a sacred context
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, December 21, 2017
Honorable Mention
When America aspired to be first in the arts as well as war
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 30, 2017
A Week of Webern
Chances to hear the master’s music live are all too rare
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 16, 2017
Beethoven in the Blitz
When the bombs fell, Myra Hess played on
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 09, 2017
The Sequel as Rebirth
What could Hector Berlioz do to follow up his most fantastic symphony?
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 26, 2017
Sonic Fields of Dark and Light
Morton Feldman and his Rothko Chapel
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, November 02, 2017
Crushed Cadences and Vented Rests
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 12, 2017
The Scholar-Pianist
Paul Badura-Skoda on his 90th birthday
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, October 05, 2017
Crossing Over
Kiri Te Kanawa and Richard Strauss’s final songs
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 28, 2017
Songs of Innocence
Fauré, Verlaine, and the music of eternal hope
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 21, 2017
A Poet of the Heart
The brief career of Guillaume Lekeu
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 14, 2017
Mahler in the Jungle
The Mexican composer who championed the people, and who memorably depicted the Yucatán on film
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, September 07, 2017
Schubert Everlasting
Sviatoslav Richter and a music like no other
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, August 17, 2017
A Little Night Music
Hearing Gurrelieder on a stormy night
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, August 10, 2017
Driving Rhythms, Beguiling Sounds
The music of Erkki-Sven Tüür
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, August 03, 2017
Great Escape
On Normandy’s coast a century ago, Claude Debussy fled the war and composed his final piano masterpiece
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, June 29, 2017
Sound and Silence
Jean Sibelius and the symphony that never was
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, June 22, 2017
Great Escape
On Normandy’s coast a century ago, Claude Debussy fled the war and composed his final piano masterpiece
by Sudip Bose | Wednesday, March 04, 2015
The Canyons, the Stars, and the Realm Beyond
Olivier Messiaen’s tribute to America
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, May 18, 2017
Kinderszenen
A love of music should be nurtured from the start
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, April 27, 2017
In Search of Lasting Peace
Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, April 20, 2017
Out of the Closet
The strange case of Erica Morini’s Stradivarius
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, April 13, 2017
Sound and Scandal
When music mattered enough to start a fight
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 30, 2017
Sound and Silence
Georg Friedrich Haas and Mozart’s Requiem
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 09, 2017
The Short, Tragic Life of Dinu Lipatti
Remembering the pianist on his centenary
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 02, 2017
The Conscience of Adolf Busch
He’d return to Germany, he said, when Hitler was hanged
by Sudip Bose | Wednesday, February 15, 2017
In Praise of Vinyl
Returning to a more tactile, immersive experience
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, February 09, 2017
Remembering Rostropovich
A defender of the arts during authoritarian rule
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, February 02, 2017
The Inimitable Christian Ferras
What darkness lay beneath his excellence?
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 26, 2017
A Tale of Two Concerts
Music meant politics at Richard Nixon’s second inauguration
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, January 19, 2017
The Old Master
Neville Marriner breathed new life into Baroque music, with a sense of drive and panache
by Sudip Bose | Monday, December 05, 2016
It Beggared All Description
The famous flop that opened the Met
by Sudip Bose | Monday, June 06, 2016
The Sound of Silence
Jean Sibelius and the symphony that never was
by Sudip Bose | Monday, February 29, 2016
Vermeer and the Art of Solitude
Some works are not meant to be blockbusters
by Sudip Bose | Monday, December 07, 2015
When the Angry Lion Roared
Pierre Boulez and the piece that marked his breakthrough as a composer
by Sudip Bose | Monday, September 07, 2015
Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare
Sophisticated and never condescending
by Sudip Bose | Monday, October 05, 2015
An Epic in Flux
Gilgamesh, the world's first great literary work, is still being pieced together
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, March 01, 2007
The World All Before Them
Setting off on footpaths both well-trod and forgotten
by Sudip Bose | Friday, March 01, 2013
Incident at Mittersill
A new opera explores the mysterious death of the composer Anton Webern
by Sudip Bose | Friday, December 06, 2013
Atonality and Beyond
The century when composers and audiences parted company
by Sudip Bose | Saturday, September 01, 2007
Cal & Liz & Ted & Sylvia
The corresponding prose of midcentury poets
by Sudip Bose | Monday, December 01, 2008
Enlightenment Lite
by Sudip Bose | Saturday, March 01, 2008
Lenny's Little Chats
Envy the children who learned music from the maestro, Leonard Bernstein
by Sudip Bose | Thursday, December 01, 2005
On Virtuosity
A mastery of technique ought to be exalted, not disdained
by Sudip Bose | Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Vibrato Wars
Elgar, served neat and unshaken, stirs up the Brits
by Sudip Bose | Sunday, March 01, 2009
In Praise of Flubs
The pursuit of perfection has taken all the personality out of recorded classical music
by Sudip Bose | Wednesday, December 01, 2004
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